Light & Motion Tetra 5050 and ROC lighting control

Peter Rowlands · Issue 14, Aug/Sep 2003 · pp. 15–16

Products mentioned: Light & Motion Tetra 5050, ROC controller, Olympus 5050, Sea & Sea YS90DX, Sea & Sea YS90, Sea & Sea YS60, Sea & Sea YS50, Ikelite strobes, Nikon strobes, Wetlink connector, Light & Motion Macro adaptor, Light & Motion Wide angle adaptor

15 Light & Motion Tetra 5050 and ROC lighting control American manufacturer Light & Motion are more associated with high quality video systems but they have recently entered the still photography market as demand for these products increases. Their first cast aluminium housing was for a previous Olympus digital camera and they have used the same basic mould for their Olympus 5050 housing. Elegant is not a word I would use to describe this housing but it does allow control over nearly all the cameras functions with the main exception being the on/off control but this is not a problem as half pressing the shutter release will ‘wake up’ the camera. The camera fits snugly into the housing and is held firmly. All you have to do is slide the top connector into the hot shoe and plug the telephone style connector into the rear of the housing to activate the housings’ impressive electronics. The …